Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Bring me, oh! pitying Sleep! no lovely train]
Bring me, oh! pitying Sleep! no lovely trainOf visions fair, no smiling aspects bright,
No shapes of beauty, and no realms of light;
Bring but forgetfulness!—Steep, steep my brain
In that, and I will bless thy gentle chain.—
Bring full and deep forgetfulness—and write
Upon my soul, in characters of night,
One word, one sole word “Peace!”—Come now and reign!—
Now come and snatch this heavy heart grief-worn,
From all the death of life!—Heave strong, strong bars
Between me and that world I loathe—dread—scorn.
Dreams—ye're piled battle-fields of finished wars!—
Bring me no light to mind of coming morn;—
Of night I ask her shadows—not her stars.
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